FGETWS(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		     FGETWS(3)



NAME
       fgetws - read a wide-character string from a FILE stream

SYNOPSIS
       #include <wchar.h>

       wchar_t *fgetws(wchar_t *ws, int n, FILE *stream);

DESCRIPTION
       The  fgetws() function is the wide-character equivalent of the fgets(3)
       function.  It reads a string of at most n-1 wide	 characters  into  the
       wide-character array pointed to by ws, and adds a terminating null wide
       character (L'\0').  It stops  reading  wide  characters	after  it  has
       encountered  and	 stored	 a newline wide character.  It also stops when
       end of stream is reached.

       The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least n wide char-
       acters at ws.

       For a nonlocking counterpart, see unlocked_stdio(3).

RETURN VALUE
       The fgetws() function, if successful, returns ws.  If end of stream was
       already reached or if an error occurred, it returns NULL.

ATTRIBUTES
       For  an	explanation  of	 the  terms  used   in	 this	section,   see
       attributes(7).

       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface | Attribute	  | Value   |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |fgetws()  | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.

NOTES
       The  behavior  of fgetws() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the cur-
       rent locale.

       In the absence of additional information passed to the  fopen(3)	 call,
       it is reasonable to expect that fgetws() will actually read a multibyte
       string from the stream and then convert it to a wide-character string.

       This function is unreliable, because it does not permit to  deal	 prop-
       erly with null wide characters that may be present in the input.

SEE ALSO
       fgetwc(3), unlocked_stdio(3)

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